Crown Of Ashes : A Dark Mafia Romance(City of Kings Book 2)

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He gave me a gun. I gave him a reason to use it.

I thought surviving his world was the hardest part. I was wrong. The hardest part is staying human while learning how to think like a mafia king.

Alessio Valenti, the youngest mafia boss in New York, killed his own uncle at a family dinner table and calmly asked for dessert. I should have run. Instead, I stayed. I started learning how to shoot. I started learning how to survive inside a dark mafia empire built on blood, loyalty, and fear.

And then I started becoming someone I don’t recognize.

The conspiracy that killed our fathers—known only as The Circle—is not just a shadow organization controlling New York’s politicians, judges, and shipping routes. It is a criminal power network embedded inside mafia families and government systems.

They didn’t just kill our fathers. They engineered everything that came after.

Now they’re coming for us.

But we are no longer victims.

We are a mafia crime lord and a journalist turned strategist, operating in a world of organized crime, power struggles, and brutal loyalty tests. Ink and blood. Financial warfare and midnight interrogations. A city where every alliance is temporary and every betrayal is fatal.

When I watch Alessio execute a traitor, I don’t look away anymore. When he presses his forehead to my knees and asks me to rule beside him, I don’t say no. When the man who raised him dies in his arms, I stay—because leaving is no longer something I know how to do.

But love in this world is not soft. It is not safe.

It is a negotiation between power and possession.

I place a Brooklyn apartment key on his desk and tell him:

You can have me. Or you can cage me. You can’t have both.

He is terrified of becoming his father. I am terrified I am already becoming something worse—something I chose to become inside this dark mafia romance world of obsession, power, and moral corruption.

CROWN OF ASHES is the second book in the CITY OF KINGS series—a dark mafia romance filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, slow burn romance, morally grey characters, crime syndicates, and high-stakes power struggles between mafia families and hidden global conspiracies.

Perfect for fans of:

Rina Kent, Cora Reilly, Sophie Lark, and dark mafia romance with obsessive antiheroes and strong heroines.